The Week of July 17 & 24, 2023 Newsletter

??THIS WEEK: India Niti Aayog on Innovation, Mckinsey Tech Trends, UNGA Declaration

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HAPPENING THIS WEEK

MONDAY

• In Nairobi, the?United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)?and the Government of Kenya will co-host the??IPCC 59th Session, which will take place?24-28 July. The session is to elect the new Chair and Bureau for IPCC 7th Assessment.?
• Snap Spanish Congress of Deputies and Spanish Senate elections results from Jul 23 2023 will be announced amid signs of a resurgent populist right. Cambodian National Assembly elections completed yesterday.
• EuroLat/Spain:?the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly, composed of 150 Members (half of them MEPs and half - Latin American regional parliamentarians), will gather in Madrid to assess the results of the recent EU, Latin American and Caribbean states leaders' meeting in Brussels and look for ways to boost the bi-regional dialogue (Monday to Thursday).
• European Union Economic Mission to Washington: A delegation of the following MEP's will be travelling to Washington DC?from 23 - 26 July 2023: Markus?FERBER?(EPP, DE), Danuta Maria?HüBNER?(EPP, PL), Jonás?FERNáNDEZ?(S&D, ES), Stéphanie?YON-COURTIN?(Renew, FR), Erik?POULSEN?(Renew, DK), Henrike?HAHN?(Greens/EFA,DE), Dorien?ROOKMAKER?(ECR, NL)
• Intertraffic China, 24-26 July 2023, Shanghai, China

TUESDAY

• In Bangkok, the?eighth session of the Committee on Disaster Risk Reduction?will be held from 25 to 27 July. The Committee session will take place during the?ESCAP?Disaster Resilience Week,?which will be held from 24 to 27 July 2023.
• Sustainable use of pesticides European Union Ministers will, on the basis of information provided by the Commission, exchange views on the study complementing the impact assessment of the proposal.
• New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) European Union Ministers will exchange views on the Commission's legislative proposal on the regulation on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and food and feed products.

WEDNESDAY

• In Montevideo, Uruguay, the?United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)?is expected to release its?2023 GEM Report on Technology and Education.?
• Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, Meeting: An oversight hearing to examine artificial intelligence, focusing on?principles for regulation. Meeting Details
• Senate Committee on the Budget, Meeting: Hearings to examine?the fiscal consequences of climate change on US infrastructure.?Meeting Details
• Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Meeting: Hearings to examine?opportunities for Congress to reform the process for permitting electric transmission lines, pipelines, and energy production on Federal lands.?Meeting Details
• House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce, Hearing: Self-Driving Vehicle Legislative Framework?Meeting Details
• Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Meeting: Business meeting to consider an original bill entitled, "Primary Care and Health Workforce Expansion Act", Meeting Details
• Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee, Meeting: Hearings to examine?cleaner trains, focusing on opportunities for reducing emissions from America's rail network.?Meeting Details

THURSDAY

• Today, the Global Climate Litigation Report: 2023 Status Review?will be launched, a day ahead of the first anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s?declaration?of access to a clean and healthy environment as a universal human right. The report provides an overview of key climate litigation cases from the past two years, including historic breakthroughs and how - as the body of legal precedent grows - an increasingly well-defined field of law is being defined.???

FRIDAY

• G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Ministers’ meeting in Chennai (India)
• International Conference on Smart Transportation and Future Mobility & 7th International Conference on SmartRail, Traffic and Transportation Engineering & International Conference on Transport and Smart Cities, 28-31 July 2023, Changsha, China

SATURDAY & SUNDAY

• Central African Republic Referendum is this weekend.

GLOBAL ECONOMIC PULSE

Interest rates will be announced by U.S. Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of Japan. U.S., UK and Euro-area PMIs and GDP will be out this week.?Emerging Markets interest rate from Chile (currently at 11.25%), Ghana (currently at 29.5%), Hungary (currently at 13%), Indonesia (currently at 5.75%) and Nigeria (currently at 18.5%). Brazil, Turkey, and Mexico will announce inflation information.?Manufacturing output declined in June.?Boost from improved supply chain cleared the back order backlog but lack of new orders mean factories around the world are approaching a low volume regime. July data released in August will provide additional insights.

Earnings Reports This Week:?Cadence Design Systems Inc. (CDNS), NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), Ryanair Holdings (RYAAY), Brown & Brown Inc. (BRO), Domino’s Pizza (DPZ), Crown Holdings Inc. (CCK) , Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL;?GOOG), Visa (V), Texas Instruments (TXN), Raytheon Technologies (RTX), Verizon Communications (VZ), General Electric (GE), UBS (UBS), 3M Company (MMM), Ford Motor Company (F), Meta Platforms (META), The Coca-Cola Company (KO), Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO), Union Pacific Railroad (UNP), Boeing (BA), Automatic Data Processing Inc. (ADP), AT&T (T), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Stellantis (STLA), O’Reilly Automotive (ORLY), Mastercard (MA), AbbVie (ABBV), McDonald’s (MCD), Shell (SHEL), Linde (LIN), Comcast (CMCSA), T-Mobile (TMUS), Intel (INTC), Honeywell International (HON), S&P Global Inc. (SPGI), ExxonMobil (XOM), Procter & Gamble (PG), Chevron (CVX), AstraZeneca (AZN), Sanofi (SNY), Aon (AON), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Charter Communications (CHTR), Centene Corp. (CNC), T-Rowe Price Group (TROW)

NOTEWORTHY REGULATIONS, LEGISLATION, DECISIONS & REPORTS

• The US-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 Partnership includes the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (SCEP)has published its Sustainable growth pillar focusing on eTrucks and a report on Emerging Fuels and Technologies Pillar.
• India’s Niti Aayog published A New Lens for Innovation in India, introducing the Techno-Commercial Readiness and Market Maturity Matrix concept with references to India's automotive industry and the production of electric vehicles.
• Us Federal Aviation Administration published FAA Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Implementation Plan covering drones and including electric aircraft, or electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, in both controlled and uncontrolled airspace.
• UK Space Agency published its UK Space Exploration Technology Roadmap.
• McKinsey published its McKinsey 2023 Technology Trends Outlook.
• New factsheet published by the International Trade Administration on what they do, ho they help, and its policy priorities.
• Political Declaration to be adopted at the United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), under the auspices of the General Assembly in September 2023 at the Sustainable Development Goals Summit, to review progress and accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
• Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a top public health threat and national security issue, projected to cause 10 million deaths by 2050.?Society for Microbiology has 10 policy recommendations to stem AMR.
• The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) to the CDC has initiated work to revise the CDC’s Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings, last updated in 2007. This foundational guidance directs infection control practices for a wide range of pathogens in health care settings in the United States and influences guidelines and practices around the world.?The presentations at the June 2023 HICPAC meeting, that the revised CDC/HICPAC guidelines will change protections for health care personnel exposed to infectious aerosols, including SARS-CoV-2 (LINK, LINK).

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